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ADELAIDE’S ONLINE DAI LY NEWS PAP ER Friday,15th May 2009 Plastic pain,for no gain LIBERAL SA SENATOR MARY JO FISHER If the plastic bag ban will achieve anything worthwhile, why aren’t all plastic bags banned? Like water restrictions, “bans” on plastic bags are inconsistent and miss the mark. Like water restrictions, bag bans won’t work. They’ll cause people pain, will create hidden costs and have unintended consequences. Government wants us to be distracted by a debate about why we can’t decide to exercise a first-world right (such as the responsible use and re-use of a plastic shopping bag) or access to a specific basic service (like backyard water). Government stands in our way, wags its finger, and imposes a ban, prohibition or punitive measure. In so doing, government preys stealthily upon the nature INBRIEF $1m shrink South Australia has defied a national trend, increasing its number of suburbs with a median price of $1 million. Million dollar suburbs shrunk from 152 to 134 across Australia in the past 12 months. However, in SA the number of suburbs with a median price of more than $1 million has increased by one, bringing the total to six. North Adelaide slipped out of the list with a median price of $944,000 while Malvern and Toorak Gardens saw their median prices increase to make the list. San Suu Kyi should be released immediately after Burma’s military junta brought new charges against her. 189 Wattle Street, Malvern - $1.35 -$1.45 million. US saysAung San Suu Kyi should be released immediately The United States says pro-democracy icon Aung Burma’s military junta charged Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday with breaching the terms of her house arrest over a bizarre incident in which a US man swam to her lakeside house. The 63-year-old goes on trial on Monday on the charges, which carry a jail term of up to five years and would stretch her detention past its supposed expiry date this month and through controversial elections due in 2010. Historic ETS laws tabled The Federal Government has tabling laws in parliament to set up the emissions trading scheme. Australia is now at the pointy end in the debate about whether emissions trading should go ahead. Parliament is due to vote next month. of most Australians to “do the right thing” , because “every little bit helps”… doesn’t it? As with water restrictions, Premier Mike Rann relies on bag bans to make it look like he’s doing something. He’ll trade for a time on the goodwill of most South Aussies to “help do good”. The Government argues that ‘bag bans will benefit us all’. Where is the Premier’s proof for his promise? If bans will benefit as the Premier promises, then why did Labor premiers in other states, and the federal Environment Minister, refuse to follow suit in their states and across the nation? Because they know it’s all pain, for little or no gain. Excerpt from American Beauty courtesy DreamWorks SKG EDITOR’S NOTE- LOWER LAKES